As per usual, whenever we drive home from that direction, the General and I stop in the Military Museum in Pivka, our biggest military museum - the biggest at least collection of actual big stuff, though I also enjoyed the photo exhibition of the one in Maribor and Celje has a spooky one, and I am sure Ljubljana has some good stuff, but I don't remember the details right this second... The most fucked up shit is of course going to be found in the expo in Kobarid - the site of Isonzo River battles of the Great Big One #1 - war to End all Wars - and if you're a praying man, that place will never stop being haunted by the hundreds of thousands of voices silenced for the most retarded reasons. (Impossibly bad leaders, mustard gas turning back on their own, avalanches, so on... As an illustration: the Italians had such a shit commander, that when our boy Big Vinny R. describes his assault with a band of soldiers on the Spindle (Kolovrat) hill, the Italians in caves just keep surrendering, in one case even tearing their own officer to pieces when he tries to resist. It got THAT crappy.)
But of course taking the General to a military museum is like taking me blindfolded through a chocolate degustation or (not blindfolded) a bookstore: he either knows everything and is excited like a pilot getting a licence to take off, or he finds an error in the exhibition and is simply furious :D
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| They built this adorable little tank outside of wood and ivy :D <3 |
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| But first, of course, a proper meal: Yugo Burgers for all! |
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| Toy tanks <3 I should probably try and buy a model-making set for G one of these days. |
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| Picture of a Stone Age encampment site |
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| Model of Slovenian war for Independence greatest hits |
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| Well done walls of the Parachute/Pilots expo |
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| Back to basics |
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| A selfie :D |
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| Add caption |
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| These spook the fuck out of me. For MANY fictitious reasons - too many movies, too many shows with these in... :/ |
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| A day in nature: let's have a picnic and pose on the wreck of a fighter plane |
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| The piece about how women of the region where things fell down, make use of the material: parachute silk was for undergarments, the metal was for cooking appliances... My dad has a story in which an ambulance was abandoned (though not without a body) in his village and people dismantled it within a night. |
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| Recently a farmer dug up a 250 kg bomb such as this one and wheelbarrowed it to his yard with his kids. All of our bomb squad force was needed to safely remove it and detonate it, before it erased the village from the map. |
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| Guess which one of the people on this photo is later to become a big military name ... |
The Independence War photo (good stuff, well done!)
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| People rushing to place a new name of the country on the border crossing during the conflict |
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| The president facing his new army |
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| And Austrian diabetic man asking to be able to cross |
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| Negotiations |
.. end of part one.
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